clots 1 of 2

plural of clot
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clots

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verb

present tense third-person singular of clot

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of clots
Noun
Types After a cut or injury, the body normally forms clots to stop the bleeding. Health, 21 Sep. 2025 For some patients who cannot move or have more limited mobility, external devices or compression stockings can help prevent clots as well. Paul Sisson, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025 For some patients who cannot move or have more limited mobility, external devices or compression stockings can help prevent clots as well. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025 Studies have shown that both erythritol and xylitol may cause blood platelets to more easily clump — creating clots that can break off and travel to the heart, triggering a heart attack, or to the brain, damaging blood vessels or triggering a stroke. Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025 Proteins and lipids and organic clots of fish scales. Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025 Clotting factors, which are proteins in the blood, work with platelets to form clots. Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025 For clots that persist and cause ongoing swelling, procedures like angioplasty and stenting help doctors physically open the vein or remove the obstruction. Daryl Austin, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025 She was taken off the blood thinners immediately and then had emergency vascular surgery to remove the clots and install a stent to flatten the cyst that was causing the clots. Steve Vernon, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clots
Noun
  • If conditions are right, the clusters swirl into a storm known as a tropical wave or tropical depression.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • These self-organizing clusters start producing blood after about two weeks in the lab, mimicking the process seen in human embryos.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And can small dark matter clumps exist without forming stars inside them?
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Whichever the case, the researchers are now curious to discover more characteristics of the intriguing object, including determining whether dark matter can exist in small clumps without stars.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Its closure blocks hundreds of trucks from entering and providing food aid to thousands of returning Palestinians.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The original restraining order from Ellis blocks agents from targeting journalists who are not interfering with law enforcement.
    Josh Campbell, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Farmers have very little influence over which microbes take hold, resulting in flavor variations between batches and regions.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Refrigerate uncooked cookie dough between batches.
    Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Cut hard cheeses in cubes or bite-size chunks, while leave softer cheeses and logs whole.
    Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The stock becomes the base of the soup, along with puréed vegetables and chunks of meaty fish.
    Katherine Whittaker, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To be funny while playing a character who’s sweet and endearing (even when calling his friends idiots) is a skill, and Bad Bunny has it.
    Rima Parikh, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2025
  • For a bunch of idiots, this did not work out too badly.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Don't tail large vehicles closely - Trucks or buses can kick up a water spray that obstructs visibility.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Don't tail large vehicles closely - Trucks or buses can kick up a water spray that obstructs visibility.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • An aerospace startup that aims to provide a method to build living and industrial structures in space, communications systems and solar arrays to beam energy to Earth has opened its headquarters in Golden.
    Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Developers had planned to use 118,000 acres of federal land in Nevada’s desert as the home for solar arrays and batteries to store the sun’s energy.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Clots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clots. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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